Residual Affiliate Programs - 4 Great Reasons To Promote For
Long Term Income
Copyright 2006 Dean Shainin
By means of affiliate marketing, you won't need to worry about
the products you have to sell.
All you need to have is a website with adequate contents that
are related to the products of a certain online company offering
affiliate programs. In many cases you don't even need a website.
By becoming a member of the program, or by becoming an
affiliate, you can start earning a certain amount of money right
away.
1. The majority of affiliate programs would pay you, as an
affiliate, a one-time commission for every sale or lead you
brought to the merchant's website. Commissions for this kind of
affiliate programs are usually large, ranging from 20% to a high
of about 75%. Other affiliate programs would pay you a set fee
for every click through or traffic you send to the merchant's
site. Programs like this often pay a smaller fee for every click
through. The excellent thing about this type of program,
however, is that the visitor won't have to purchase anything in
order for the affiliate to get compensated.
2. A different type of affiliate program is the residual income
affiliate program. Residual affiliate programs usually pay a
small percentage of sales commission for every sale directed by
the affiliate to the merchant's site. This commission often
comes only in the range of 15% to 30% sales commission. Because
of this, many people disregard residual affiliate program and
would rather opt for the high paying one-time commission
affiliate program. Are these people making a mistake, or are
they making the right decision?
3. Residual affiliate programs would indeed pay at a lower rate,
but merchants offering such programs would generally pay you
regular and ongoing commissions for a single affiliate initiated
sale. That means, for the same effort you made in promoting a
particular affiliate program, you get paid only once in a
one-time commission program, and a set and continuing commission
for a residual program.
4. Thought you have directed traffic to the merchant and it
converted into a sale, you'll get paid once by the first
merchant for the sale you have initiated. But with a residual
program, you'll get paid monthly for as long as the customer you
have referred to the merchant continues to benefit of the web
hosting service. That means that for the same endeavor of
getting one buyer to avail of the merchant's service, you get
paid monthly in residual affiliate programs while you only get
paid once in a one-time commission type of affiliate programs.
So, are residual affiliate programs worth promoting? Yes,
because you virtually get more money from these types of
affiliate programs in the long run. With the benefits that
residual affiliate marketing can provide, it would really be
foolish to disregard such programs.